Wages play an important role in those statistics; when you earn less, paying off loans is harder. Student loan debt, meanwhile, tends to take up a larger share of women’s income than it does men’s, according to Washington-based Institute for Women’s Policy Research. Student loans [...]

"Women tend to do well where the industries that dominate that state are white-collar industries, whether it’s insurance, or healthcare or education or government," said Heidi Hartmann, president of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research in Washington. Maryland benefits from being geographically close to "not only [...]

"Women tend to do well where the industries that dominate that state are white-collar industries, whether it’s insurance, or healthcare or education or government," said Heidi Hartmann, president of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research in Washington. Maryland benefits from being geographically close to "not only [...]

The ratio of women’s to men’s median weekly full-time earnings declined from 82.5 cents on the dollar in 2014 to 81.1 cents on the dollar in 2015, according to new data released this week in advance of International Women’s Day on March 8 by the [...]

The gender pay gap is a worldwide problem, but women in some places have it worse than others. A new report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research reveals that working women in the South suffer some of the harshest inequalities in the U.S., not [...]